Driffield Battlefield Tours

In late April this year, we’ll be boarding the Eurostar again, but this time heading to a new location – the northern French city of Arras. The weekend will see the six of us visiting the memorials and preserved trenches at Vimy Ridge on the Saturday. The Vimy Memorial is Canada’s largest overseas National Memorial (pictured above). It commemorates more than 11,000 men of the Canadian Expeditionary Force killed during the First World War in France and who have no known grave.

Another year, and another tour has come and gone, and once again a grand time was had by all in the Belgian and French countryside on Leger’s Tunnellers on the Western Front - The Underground War. Surprisingly good weather and a superb itinerary made this an excellent trip, with the only blot on the landscape being the interminable wait to get through Customs checks on the way home at Calais and Dover. We appreciate that extra checks are necessary thanks to the murderous acti

The British Army's blackest day The year 2016 marks the 100th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme, so the choice of tour this time around was an obvious one to make, and we’ll be heading to northern France in April. The main focus of the tour will be the disastrous First Day of the Somme, following the line of the attacks on 1st July 1916 which cost the British and Commonwealth troops a horrifying 57,470 casualties, of whom 19,240 men were killed. Battlefield visits will i

Our first visit to Ypres - a whistlestop visit for a meal and the Last Post Ceremony at the Menin Gate - took place during the All Quiet on the Western Front tour in October 2008, and it was clear to us straight away that this was a special place. Due to its location at the heart of the British efforts during WWI, Ypres WWI, Ypres – known locally as Ieper – is absolutely steeped in history from that period, and is surrounded on three sides by reminders of the battles that too